Sr Site Reliability Engineer

About Renaissance

Renaissance® is a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology. Our solutions help educators analyze, customize, and plan personalized learning paths for students, allowing time for what matters—creating energizing learning experiences in the classroom. We are dedicated to helping educational partners achieve phenomenal student growth and support over 100 countries worldwide.

Job Description

Renaissance is seeking an experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join the Engineering Enablement group's Site Reliability Team. This role focuses on Application and Infrastructure Availability, Reliability, Observability & Security. We are looking for someone who can influence our SRE philosophy and practices, solve problems, communicate effectively, and value teamwork.

• Work with engineering, security & governance teams to improve observability, reliability, resiliency, auditability of our systems and minimize/prevent downtime.
• Contribute to infrastructure-as-code using Terraform & CloudFormation.
• Support CI/CD pipelines which ensure the prompt release of high-quality software.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolve infrastructure issues.
• Perform Disaster Recovery exercises on our products.
• Explore and integrate AI tooling into the SRE workflows.
• Be part of an on-call rotation & support off-hour incidents & deployments.
• Demonstrate strong skills in giving constructive feedback through coaching even without direct reports.

To be considered for this role, you should have:

• 5+ years of experience focused on SRE.
• Experience in managing & monitoring containerized cloud environments in production, preferably AWS EKS.
• Experience with IaC, Configuration Management and Orchestration Tools like Terraform/Docker/Ansible.
• Hands-on experience in any of the programming or scripting languages like .NET/Java, Python, Javascript etc.
• On Call experience & willingness to be on call during non-work hours and weekends.
• Experience working in an agile environment.

Bonus points for:

• A BS in Information Systems or Computer Science, related field experience, or both.
• Managing Kubernetes Clusters, EKS at Scale using Helm.
• Sets up Gitlab & Github pipelines & workflows.
• Experience setting up Monitoring, Logging, Alerting & Observability in tools like NewRelic, Datadog, Grafana.
• Experience with Teleport, Hashicorp Boundary etc.
• Experience with RedShift, OpenSearch/ZeroETL.
• Experience running Disaster Recovery exercises.
• Implementing service level objectives (SLO/SLI/SLA’s) & error budgets.
• Experience using ClaudeCode using agentic coding, agentic SDLC, enabling/rolling-out agentic DX.

Additional Information:

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. The below compensation range is based on national market data and may vary by experience and location. Salary Range $109,500 - $150,550 USD.

Benefits For Eligible US Employees Include:

• World Class Health Benefits: Medical, Prescription, Dental, Vision, Telehealth
• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts
• 401(k) and Roth 401(k) with company match
• Paid Vacation and Sick Time Off
• 12 Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave (20 total weeks with 14 weeks paid) & Milk Stork program
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Life & Disability Insurance
• Well-being and Employee Assistance Programs

Frequently cited statistics show that some women, underrepresented individuals, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities may only apply to roles if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Renaissance encourages all applications. Roles evolve over time, especially with innovation, and you may be just the person we need for the future!

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Reasonable Accommodations Renaissance also provides reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and applicable state and local laws. If accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact Talent Acquisition.